Need for Funding

Spending Breakdown

Cents to The Cause

For a dollar donated, cents funding the cause after fundraising and admin costs, excluding surplus.

Full-time staff #56

Avg. Compensation $75,325

Top 10 Staff Salary Range

$350k +

0

$300k - $350k

0

$250k - $300k

0

$200k - $250k

0

$160k - $200k

0

$120k - $160k

1

$80k - $120k

8

$40k - $80k

1

< $40k

0

Information from most recent CRA Charities Directorate filings for F2015

About Doctors Without Borders:

Founded in 1991, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières Canada (MSF) is a disaster response charity with expertise in medical aid that works in 60 countries. MSF provides medical aid to people following natural disasters and wars. MSF’s charter states that it helps people regardless of race, religion or political views.

Doctors Without Borders’ flagship program is international disaster response. It is typically "first in" and "first out" rather than doing longer term development aid. MSF also provides ongoing healthcare to people suffering from diseases such as cholera in Haiti, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and tropical diseases. Finally, MSF’s advocacy arm raises ongoing public awareness on instances of human abuse and populations in danger.

MSF Canada is one of 18 national MSF offices. Since 2013, Canadian Dr. Joanne Liu is MSF's International President. In F2016, MSF Canada sent 343 medical and logistical professionals on missions in 27 countries. In analyzing the leading reasons for MSF’s intervention, 17 countries faced conflict and violence, 8 countries faced epidemics and diseases, 9 countries lacked access to healthcare, and 1 country suffered a natural disaster.

MSF Canada’s largest projects focused on the ongoing conflict and violence in the Central African Republic ($4.8m in F2016), the conflict and disease outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo ($3.6m in F2016), and the lack of healthcare and violent clashes between Boko Haram and military forces in Chad ($2.6m in F2016). It conducts vaccination campaigns, training doctors and nurses, improving water and sanitation infrastructure, on top of providing medical aid to disaster areas.

Measuring impact in disaster response is challenging. Reports are surfacing on Doctors Without Borders results in the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and the heroic work of Canadian doctor Rob Fowler from Sunnybrook Hospital seconded with the World Health Organization and Doctors Without Borders. First into West Africa in March 2014, using aggressive fluid protocols, Doctors Without Borders reduced the Ebola mortality rate from +80% to less than 40% saving tens of thousands of lives and instrumental in ending the Ebola outbreak.

MSF has a reputation of speaking out. It critically called out the late international response to the Ebola epidemic in 2014. It is currently demanding an independent investigation into the US bombing of MSF's field hospitals in Afghanistan that killed 42 medical staff and patients in October 2015.

Financial Review:

Doctors Without Borders Canada is a Major 100 charity, with donations of $55.8m in F2016. Its administrative costs are 3% of revenues and its fundraising costs are 16% of donations. For every $1 donated to the charity, 81 cents go towards MSF Canada’s programs, falling within Ci’s reasonable range. The charity has funding reserves of $25.0m, resulting in a program cost coverage ratio of 45%. This means that it can cover just over 5 months of its annual programs using its existing reserves, indicating a need for funding.

This charity report is an update that is being reviewed by Doctors Without Borders. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.

Updated on August 15, 2017 by Kevin Silberberg.

Financial Ratios

Fiscal year ending December

2016

2015

2014

Administrative costs as % of revenues

3.1%

2.7%

2.8%

Fundraising costs as % of donations

16.4%

15.1%

17.8%

Program cost coverage (%)

45.2%

31.9%

41.6%

Summary Financial Statements

All figures in $000s

2016

2015

2014

Donations

55,791

53,658

49,333

Government funding

3,550

13,750

13,100

Investment income

221

214

131

Other income

7,291

6,446

6,020

Total revenues

66,853

74,068

68,584

Program costs - International

54,104

55,325

47,929

Program costs - Canada

1,295

929

906

Administrative costs

2,067

1,978

1,889

Fundraising costs

9,139

8,104

8,767

Cash flow from operations

247

7,731

9,093

Funding reserves

25,012

17,915

20,289

Note: Ci has adjusted amortization of capital assets affecting expenses by ($92k) in F2016, ($143k) in F2015, and by ($123k) in F2014.

The information in this report was prepared by Charity Intelligence Canada and its independent analysts from publically-available information. Charity Intelligence Canada and its analysts have made endeavours to ensure that the data in this report is accurate and complete but accept no liability. No attempt has been made to examine the effectiveness of the charities' programs.